To shoot or not to shoot?
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Find out what sort of bird they are, you can probably get a noise they don't like on cd.
Failing that, don't kill them, blast them out with a hose, scare them off with a blank gun or airhorn. Exhaust all options before killing the buggers, the cat is the problem here. My cat would have scooped them out of the sky by now and had them as an early morning snack at the foot of my bed
Completely illegal to shot birds from your garden as far as i'm aware. Depends when you live though, you'll probably get away with it if you're in penhill or walcot
Failing that, don't kill them, blast them out with a hose, scare them off with a blank gun or airhorn. Exhaust all options before killing the buggers, the cat is the problem here. My cat would have scooped them out of the sky by now and had them as an early morning snack at the foot of my bed
Completely illegal to shot birds from your garden as far as i'm aware. Depends when you live though, you'll probably get away with it if you're in penhill or walcot
More like 1-2ft/lb at absolute most from a stock CO2 pistol. My Colt Gold Cup has been seriously tweaked by one of the best gunsmiths in the country and it produces 2.73 ft/lb. It was 1.8 before the work was done.
This is a really stupid thread, I hope the OP is just trolling.
One of my cats was persistently harassed by a male blackbird every time he stepped outside during the summer, it went on for about 4 years. The bird seems to know which cat it is as other cats can be in the garden and the bird is silent. It used to make noise for hours during the day, my cat go fed up in the end and used to come inside. This is a video of the bird and my cat:
I'll lend you my cats. They seem to be able to catch just about anything and everything at the moment as the bits I found in the kitchen today support. And the dead sparrow one brought in for us a couple of hours after. And the starling they left dead in the garden on Thursday and the other which they caught a few days before, which incidentally was the day after they caught yet another sparrow.
I could go on, but what I'm really saying is that it sounds like your cats are broken.
Maybe starve your cats for a day, that way there's more of a chance they'll fend for themselves and see the birds as potential food rather than a PITA. Alternatively, shut your cats in during the evening/at times the birds are annoying you most. They won't be around for too much longer once their offspring fledge.
I could go on, but what I'm really saying is that it sounds like your cats are broken.
Maybe starve your cats for a day, that way there's more of a chance they'll fend for themselves and see the birds as potential food rather than a PITA. Alternatively, shut your cats in during the evening/at times the birds are annoying you most. They won't be around for too much longer once their offspring fledge.
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This, you would be killing Mummy and Daddy.
Earplugs are a temporary solution but tbh why should you have to do that forever? call the RSPCA or someone and get advice surely they can remove them, as for the cats if a bird was diving at me i'd back off to. I really dislike birds and the noise they make.
This. Unless its a ratcatcher or something.
Only thing I'd consider shooting them with is my AR15 fully automatic softair gun
. They wouldn't be back after getting hit with that and it wouldn't injure them.
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I work nights, and have a couple of bird issues... The first problem is a cockrel. Which insists on making an absolute racket every morning at 10am. I mean seriously who the **** keeps a cockrel in their back yard in the middle of a town?
Also theres a bird that sits outside my window making the most irritating noise ever for hours. I'd would LOVE to shoot the little ****.
And the children playing in the street too. BAH HUMBUG. Let me sleep dammit.
Ok so that last one may be a little harsh, but you get the idea
Also theres a bird that sits outside my window making the most irritating noise ever for hours. I'd would LOVE to shoot the little ****.
And the children playing in the street too. BAH HUMBUG. Let me sleep dammit.
Ok so that last one may be a little harsh, but you get the idea
haha Blackbirds are win, we have a few in the garden, came home before and 2 just stood on the grass watching me, they have no fear.
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Yup, blackbirds/Magpies will randomly just decide to hate certain cats, a couple blackbirds would follow around our ickle cat where ever she went, they would follow my cat down the road fence to fence squawking at her for no reason. More recently we had to magpies decide to do this to all the cats in our road which was ruddy irritating as they are incredibly loud. Seems those two decided to set up a nest on a holly tree in our garden then annoy everything that got close to it.
Most cats don't bother going after big birds, if a daft bird lands on the floor near them they'll have a go but not really seem to care if they fly away, these magpies just harasse the cats. Was stupidly funny, I looked out the window and saw my bigger cat flopped over on the lawn , and a magpie just went and stood about a metre away basically shouting at my cat, who kept rolling around to get slightly further away and rolled over about 10 metre's before getting annoyed and headed back inside our house.
Some birds I'd be quite happy to be shot for the sake of our sanity. We keep our cats in from around 10pm-9am or so, other neighbours don't but due to these magpies had to start catching them and keeping them in or the magpies would start following/making a lot of noise as soon as it got light and it was waking up everyone in 7-8 houses down the road.
I'd put in a call to a bird protection type society though, see what they recommend, waiting a while as they'll likely move on when the birds leave the nest, or look around for a pest control type company that might deal with birds, don't know if any companies do or can do things to birds.
Most cats don't bother going after big birds, if a daft bird lands on the floor near them they'll have a go but not really seem to care if they fly away, these magpies just harasse the cats. Was stupidly funny, I looked out the window and saw my bigger cat flopped over on the lawn , and a magpie just went and stood about a metre away basically shouting at my cat, who kept rolling around to get slightly further away and rolled over about 10 metre's before getting annoyed and headed back inside our house.
Some birds I'd be quite happy to be shot for the sake of our sanity. We keep our cats in from around 10pm-9am or so, other neighbours don't but due to these magpies had to start catching them and keeping them in or the magpies would start following/making a lot of noise as soon as it got light and it was waking up everyone in 7-8 houses down the road.
I'd put in a call to a bird protection type society though, see what they recommend, waiting a while as they'll likely move on when the birds leave the nest, or look around for a pest control type company that might deal with birds, don't know if any companies do or can do things to birds.
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If OP has, or can obtain, the board game 'Mousetrap' then he can construct a very entertaining booby trap. Perhaps this would also distract him from the perceived problem.
